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From: jkrieger@bucsf.bu.edu (Josh Krieger)
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Subject: Re: Emergent properties (was: What AI is exactly)
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Date: 27 Sep 90 21:24:07 GMT
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   In article <3918@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus) writes:
   >     jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus) writes:
   >
   >This sounds like "emergent = I don't know".  Your definition I agree with,
   > ....

A valuable point brought up in one of our NN classes is:
"When is it a virtue to make (representations of) information explicit"

Need one explicitly denote each piece of information and each subpiece
in a device (such as the brain) or can information be stored implicitly
(emergent information).

Just a bit of food for thought.

+ Josh +